Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 8379S

JD Sports Fashion Plc

05 October 2017

 

JD Sports Fashion plc

Result of General Meeting

JD Sports Fashion plc (the "Company") announces that at its General Meeting held earlier today, the resolution was duly passed.

The result of the resolution is set out below:

Resolution Name	Number of Votes For	% of Votes For	Number of Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Number of Votes Withheld	% of Votes Withheld
Approval of Acquisition of Shares in JD Sprinter Holdings 2010 S.L.	864,872,826	99.48%	4,496,046	0.52%	22,126,689	2.48%

As set out in the circular posted to shareholders on 14 September 2017 ("Shareholder Circular"), the above share acquisition (the "Share Acquisition") is part of a wider transaction which the Company has conditionally entered into to combine its existing business in Iberia with the Sport Zone business ("Sport Zone"), which is a subsidiary of Sonae - SGPS, SA (the "Sport Zone Transaction"). As further detailed in the Shareholder Circular, there are a number of other conditions still to be satisfied before the Share Acquisition and the Sport Zone Transaction can be completed, including inter alia, the approval of the Sport Zone Transaction by the relevant competition authority.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolution passed at the General Meeting has also been submitted to the UKLA via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Enquiries:

JD Sports Fashion plc                                                                     Tel: [phone]

Siobhan Mawdsley

Company Secretary

MHP Communications                                                                Tel: [phone]

Andrew Jaques

Barnaby Fry

Gina Bell

 

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